Home Appliances
Jazz up the bath session with Underwater Disco Lights
By Andrew | April 27, 2008
Wanna add some fun excitement and life to that dull and drab bathroom, which is usually is just another haunt for just another everyday chore for the most of us.
Get naughty and get into the lively groove by adding these jazzy Underwater Diisco Light show in your bath tub. Rubber duckies and Frog pods are for kids, but nothing can pamper the adventurous instincts of an uber-cool youngster that the Underwater Disco Lights.
What more? Just slip your iPod in the waterproof iPod case and get ready to groove to the music while having a soothing bath. This is not where the story ends, you can seep in some more excitement by changing the different light show patterns suiting your mood.
There’s no need to tell that this one is perfectly water proof and is operated with battery. So how about having a pool party…naah…rather a Bathroom party instead? 
Price; $12.95
Via: Firebox
Relax in luxury at home with the Spa Capsule
By Andrew | April 26, 2008
Most of us would agree with Aditi when she says that who would say no to a single day of relaxation at a spa even if it means digging out a big hole in the pocket. But if you are a bit greedier for comfort and relief and look forward to an extended session whenever you want then get home this new innovation called the Spa Capsule.
This wonder gizmo brings the luxury of a classy spa right in the comfort of your home.
Talk about the comforts and features, the Spa Capsule loaded with an LCD panel that plays the preset programs, adjustable steam therapy, infrared therapy, 14 Vichy shower heads, a cooling face breeze, aromatherapy reservoir, music facility and capsule remote control to name a few.
If features are as lavish as these, price has got to be equally great and yes, the Spa Capsule is a little high-priced at $20,000, but I guess those eyeing at utmost luxury won’t mind shelling out that much.
Now, the luxury story doesn’t end here, if you still want more, you can upgrade this basic version with a range of spa treatments in a hydrotherapy tub with 12 Vichy showerheads, voice activation, color therapy lights, ozone therapy, a built-in LCD TV. Once loaded with these features the Spa Capsule will cost you $36,000.
Via: Inventorspot
Rotator: The rotating Shower Bath
By Andrew | April 20, 2008
I dunno if this bathing concept will pick some buyers for even too much innovation acts as a killer at times and the Rotating Bath tub falls into the same category. This weird bathing solution comes with a twist in the tale to the conventional shower systems.
One look at it and you have a shower waiting for you and just turn it around to 180 degree and there you have a bath tub, though a strange one (good for stick thin figures for only they can fit into that banana-shaped tub), but yes a bath tub. Once you are through with your bathing concerns and wish to empty it out…just rotate it again to overflow the water.
I somehow didn’t like the concept for I cannot see dirty water all over my bathing area or you should have a good drainage system in your bathroom floor. Designed by Ron Arad, the “Rotator” as they call it is made of duralite and comes to fore as an object de art rather than a piece of utility.
Via: Coolesrgadgets
Digital Chopping/ Cutting board
By Andrew | April 8, 2008
After the clean cube washer-dryer combo for the bachelor, there’s another wonder gadget from the house of Nardo, but this time for people who love to cook.
Check out the hi-tech gift for your kitchen- the digital cutting board.
Brainchild of a design student Marc Nardengeli, the cutting board features a flexible LCD that keeps showing you the recipes that you can cook. It will also give you cooking instructions to make sure that what you’re cooking is edible and won’t poison your family.
To help you further, it also allows you to download recipes so that you can try them out later. Fitted on rubber nonslip feet, the acrylic board contains the circuitry to run the flexible LCD panel and is packaged neatly on top of the other and is sealed with a safety tempered glass panel which allows finger based, touchscreen operation.
A chic design that this is marked with chromium handle at both ends, makes cooking a fun and hi-tech process rather than a monotonous chore. And the best feature is that it’ll be made out of environmentally-friendly materials which won’t kill the planet. Just a concept till now, but we are sure that it will fetch some big thumbs up to give a techie makeover to the good old boring chopping board.
Via: Gadgettastic
Clean Cube: Ventless washer dryer combo for small spaces
By Andrew | April 7, 2008
If you are a bachelor living in a small apartment, a student in a hostel or just anybody who is living alone in a small place… I’m sure hitting that laundry every week with a bag full of dirty clothes must be one of the dreading tasks that you would be praying to vanish off from your schedule. So here’s your magic wand to help you! Here’s a washing machine in an all new small and compact avatar. It’s called the Clean Cube, and perfectly in sync with its name, it’s a cube that’ll clean your clothes right inside your smallest living area.
Designed by the minds at Nardo, this small cube homes the washer dryer combo in an undersized body. So that means the bachelors and students should chuck away the worries of rushing out to the laundry and rent the Clean Cube instead for the semester or the stipulated time period. All you need to have is a small corner and a power socket and your Clean Cube will be there to work for you. It takes just 110 volts of power and offers a ventless washing and a cool LCD touchscreen display.
Now that sounds cool. So if you are already counting cash in your kitty to rent out this small wonder, let me tell you that as of now there’s no info on the price and availability, so keep watching this space!
Via: Nardo
Glow rug: The glow when pressed carpet
By Andrew | March 30, 2008
Red carpet is passé….it seems it’s the time for Glow Carpet welcomes now! No, we are not intimidating you about any alterations in the grand ‘Red-carpet welcome’ at the Oscars, but about a futurist carpet concept that is god enough to give a glowing warm welcome to your guests or beloved!
We are talking about the Glow Rug, invented by two engineering students - , co-founders of Zolo Designs at London South Bank University. In a layman’s language, with every step your guests put on the rug it will glow to give them a warm welcome.
Now talking about the technicalities, the rug is treated with touch-sensitive electroluminescence, which glows as some weight falls on it. Electroluminescence comes into process by passing current through light-emitting material, when it is electrified (powdered phosphorous in this case). When excited, it produces an instantly recognizable green-cyan glow, which you usually find in LCD wristwatches and thin film nightlights.
Powered by a set of rechargeable batteries, illumination of the Glow rug finds its roots in this concept itself. So the next time you have some guests…you know how you are going to welcome them. And in case you are sleep walker or a tripping and falling-pro, then you have an extra requirement of the Glow Rug, for with this on the floors you won’t have to search for the switches of night lights. And in case you have a party at your home Glow rug can be handy there too…not just in the glow when press mode, but in pre-set time for flashing mode as well.
Via: Livescience
Remote Rain™ Water Control: Automated control for water
By Andrew | March 28, 2008
Gardening is not my hobby though I don’t mind spending time with plants, but when it comes to watering them, I just cannot make those innumerable trips to garden to chek the hose or carry that bucket full of water.
If this is a hassle with you too, then even you’ll love this Remote Rain™ Water Control. This gadget will help you control the watering of your garden with just a click of a button on the remote, while you catch your favourite TV show.
Even when you are 100’ away the handy key fob remote control will turn on and off the water faucet. All you need to do to ensure a comfort zone for you is attach the control unit between the hose and the faucet… load the unit with four AA batteries and you are all set to give a hassle free watering to your plants. I guess, it would have been much better if instead of battery, electricity would have powered the control unit.
Talk about the looks and the control unit offers a decent white and grey colour combination, while the coupling is in brass. A soft grip at the ends offers a comfortable working pattern.
So in case you are gamed to have a tension-free comfortable watering experience, all you need to shell out is $ 69.9 and it will be yours forever.
Via: BookofJoe
Kahva: The extra ordinary Coffee Maker
By Andrew | March 25, 2008
Hats off to minds who keep working nonstop to either gift a new gadget to the world or work upon the existing ones and add into the functionality, utility and also just nothing in some cases. And this coffee maker called ‘Kahva’ designed by Lina Fischer, is one such home appliance, where she has worked upon to add in nothing but uniqueness.
Interestingly, in Kashmir (often referred to as India’s Switzerland) the local milk-less tea (a local hot beverage) is called ‘Kahva’…I wonder if the designer has some Indian connections!
Coming back to the uniqueness, this coffee maker/ bean brewer violates the nature’s law of gravity and lifts the boiling water towards the ceiling and with in no time dispenses hot hot freshly brewed rich flavoured coffee before the dumbstruck audiences!
To brew your own cuppa, all you need to do is: Fill in the glass container with water and add coffee into the upper brewing unit. Boil the water by any heating device, listen to the bubbling sound as hot water reaches the brewing unit and switch off the heating device.
And there you have perfectly brewed coffee coming out of the glass container, quickly drawn back through a filter by a vacuum witch. Just open Kahva and tehere you have your mocha directly in the cup!
Via: Yankodesign
Washing Machine cum Toilet to save water
By Andrew | March 22, 2008
Now…finally the world is listening to the ‘SAVE WATER’ call! I’m saying this as I’ve seen this unique washing machine-toilet combo that does the trick. An intelligent work of mind, this unique gadget fits a WashUP washing machine over a toilet.
Now, the good that this appliance does is that once the clothes are washed, the used water instead of getting thrown away stores it in the load, which is later on used to flush the toilet.
Can’t resist saying that the combo must be an intelligent mind’s brain child. A great way to save water as usually the water left post washing is wasted by letting I into the drain. But with this at service, very easily we’ll be able to put it to a very much valid use. I hope the design gets the approval of the manufacturers and soon we can see it in as many homes looking forward to saving some water.
Via: Slipperybrick
Pi-Ko: Wood Fueled chic stove
By Andrew | March 6, 2008
Those who get extra cautious in winters as far as keeping warm is concerned, here is a new gaget at your rescue. Check out the all new Pi-Ko from Austroflamm.
Something that sets this stunning wood-fueled stove is the fact that it comes with memory. Memory not to remember temperature but memory to retain heat even after its switched off. And to add icing on the cake, let me tell you that it keeps radiating heat for as long as nine hours after the fire is put off. Sounds cool..oops hot!
If the features are worth appreciating, so are the chic looks of Pi-Ko.
Look at another model from the same family and you’ll never say that stoves are meant to be hidden behind the doors. And quite in sync with the looks, the stove is rightly christines as Vogue!
Coming to the price structure, these wood fueled stoves seem to be meant only for the elite’s as the price tag reads $5000. As of now we can only pray for prices to come down a bit so that even we can afford some warmth this winter. By the way…do they have any off season sales? Dunno!
Vi: TreeHugger